I've just been chased up the high street ...

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.... by a motorist who did not like me stopping my car to wait for 3 kids on ponies to negotiate 20 metres of traffic and a right turn. I probably had three cars waiting behind me for less than two minutes. The traffic coming the other way did not stop, and the ponies got separated with one being a bit agitated and the child looking decidedly worried. It's a busy little village with more traffic than normal atm because of a road closure elsewhere.

Once they had turned off I carried on up the high street, left into my road and left into my driveway - with this Ahole driving up to my bumper, weaving and flashing his lights, before swerving round me as I turned in and roaring off up the road (30mph limit notwithstanding).

Makes me very glad I was between him and the ponies.
 
*****! Really hate ignorant drivers. Thankfully my mahoosive coloured horse and "CCTV" advertisement seems to work well - others on my yard do say that some go past too fast for them but theyre solid colours. So there is something in that!
 
There are some real idiots about! My step daughter and I nearly got hit by a prat driving a silver pick up truck on Sunday. He overtook us revving his engine and nearly collided with a motorhome coming the other way. Then he blasted his horn for good measure and shot off down the road.
As you say it was fortunate that you were between the idiot you met and the children on ponies, it could have been awful.
 
Snowy Celandine said:
What an ar$e!!! Why is the world so full of self-important idiots?
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My thoughts exactly Snowy, what could possibly be so urgent the moron driving would wish to risk his/her and more importantly the life of others, (esp kids) and ponies. They really don't think about anyone but themselves - such a mean and selfish attitude :(

Sorry you met with yet another ****** OP, but pleased to hear you made it home safely, hopefully along with the riders and ponies too.
 
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I was so surprised at his attitude - I mean we are a rural village which has a narrow high street so having to pause and wait for tractors, lorries, little old ladies who randomly abandon their cars outside the post office is fairly normal. He obviously hates horses (and me now, I imagine :) )
 
Rowreach said:
I'm looking forward to finding out who he is - local number plate, distinctive car ....
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Good! Probably not your area, but PQ at psni Down is very into the horsey cases. He loves the wee beasties. He plans to come out to my house and have a little pony day haha!
 
This is when I take the number plate and call the non emergency police number 101 and send them after drivers like that. They phone you back too and let you know what happened. Ignorant idiots.
 
rachk89 said:
This is when I take the number plate and call the non emergency police number 101 and send them after drivers like that. They phone you back too and let you know what happened. Ignorant idiots.
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This^^

If you got enough to possibly recognise the car (e.g. partial plate, distinctive car) then definitely report it. Even if they do nothing, it might help in the future (e.g. a hit and run, god forbid) if they know this idiot has a history of this type of behaviour.
 
Thank god you weren't between him and the children! If that horse was already agitated the last thing they needed was a maniac like that! I even pulled my dog behind me the other day because a horse was worried. It makes me so mad that we can't all get along on the roads because the few you get like this spoil it for everyone else.
 
Lucky you were between him and them! Can't understand the mentality, it isn't any great time waster!

There's a local page on FB where one very very long thread was about the cheek of having to follow cyclists all of 3 miles at less than 20mph in a 40 right to the end of the road, because there was nowhere to over take them - and there is no off road or alternative route..

Not one person realised those cyclists were actually making the end of the road a far more pleasant experience, because there is always a huge queue to turn out at the end but cyclists can filter out beside the stationary traffic they are joining as just after that there are lights. I estimated that any traffic following the cyclists would still only manage to turn out of the road the same time as when there were no cyclists (because they'd be in the queue). Was a complete thread stopper!
 
Feel like I want to add a positive to the negatives lol - coming home from work the other night, there's a stretch of road after a bridle path, quite a busy rural road, then a t-junction with a right turn towards a livery yard and a left turn towards more bridlepaths. There was a young lass on a lovely piebald, she had high viz on so was nice and easy to see. There was a van and a truck between us and them - I was in the passenger seat and could see the horse was being a bit jumpy and silly. The van behind her came to a complete stop (nothing coming from other direction so he could have gone past) and the truck in front of us put his hazards on as did we to warn cars behind us. We all waited patiently while she turned right towards the livery yard - we turned left and I looked behind to see the truck still with his hazards on behind her giving her loads of room, horse by this point was going beautifully. Was very refreshing to see. There's lots of horses and bridlepaths near us and my husband is now an expert in passing horses very wide and very slow :)
 
ChestnutWelshie said:
Feel like I want to add a positive to the negatives lol - coming home from work the other night, there's a stretch of road after a bridle path, quite a busy rural road, then a t-junction with a right turn towards a livery yard and a left turn towards more bridlepaths. There was a young lass on a lovely piebald, she had high viz on so was nice and easy to see. There was a van and a truck between us and them - I was in the passenger seat and could see the horse was being a bit jumpy and silly. The van behind her came to a complete stop (nothing coming from other direction so he could have gone past) and the truck in front of us put his hazards on as did we to warn cars behind us. We all waited patiently while she turned right towards the livery yard - we turned left and I looked behind to see the truck still with his hazards on behind her giving her loads of room, horse by this point was going beautifully. Was very refreshing to see. There's lots of horses and bridlepaths near us and my husband is now an expert in passing horses very wide and very slow :)
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That's lovely, and that's what it should be like. The middle of our village is always busy - I wonder if the bloke who chased me would have been so irate if I'd held him up waiting for an old person crossing the road, or if he is just anti-horse.
 
Some people are absolutely unbelievable. Would he have been so aggressive towards you had he been on foot, or do we think he only turns into a lunatic once safely confined in his little car bubble?
 
Rowreach said:
That's lovely, and that's what it should be like. The middle of our village is always busy - I wonder if the bloke who chased me would have been so irate if I'd held him up waiting for an old person crossing the road, or if he is just anti-horse.
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Probably. I had somebody going ape behind me because I had stopped to let an old lady with a walking frame complete her journey to the pavement. He clearly expected me to run her over as soon as the light turned green.
 
ChestnutWelshie said:
Feel like I want to add a positive to the negatives lol - coming home from work the other night, there's a stretch of road after a bridle path, quite a busy rural road, then a t-junction with a right turn towards a livery yard and a left turn towards more bridlepaths. There was a young lass on a lovely piebald, she had high viz on so was nice and easy to see. There was a van and a truck between us and them - I was in the passenger seat and could see the horse was being a bit jumpy and silly. The van behind her came to a complete stop (nothing coming from other direction so he could have gone past) and the truck in front of us put his hazards on as did we to warn cars behind us. We all waited patiently while she turned right towards the livery yard - we turned left and I looked behind to see the truck still with his hazards on behind her giving her loads of room, horse by this point was going beautifully. Was very refreshing to see. There's lots of horses and bridlepaths near us and my husband is now an expert in passing horses very wide and very slow :)
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That is just wonderful :)
 
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